


(from hotair.com)Don’t look now, but a marginalized old hand on the political stage may be making a big comeback. No, it’s not former VP Dick Cheney, but it’s an entity that had been just as maligned as Joe Biden’s predecessor.
Rasmussen’s latest survey shows that the approval rating of the American medical system has gone up 20 points in the past 18 months, and now has a near-majority of likely voters calling it good or excellent:
Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. That marks a steady increase from 44% at the beginning of October, 35% in May and 29% a year-and-a-half ago.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% now say the U.S. health care system is poor.
It is interesting to note that confidence in the system has improved as the debate over health care reform has moved to center stage. The latest polling shows that only 38% favor the health care legislation currently working its way through Congress.
Most liberal voters (51%) now rate the current health care system as poor. However, 62% of conservatives say it’s good or excellent. Among political moderates, 44% say the health care system is good or excellent while 26% say it’s poor.
On a partisan breakdown, the numbers become a little more clear. Republicans rate it good or excellent by a 64/36 margin. Independents also have a majority favoring the current system, albeit smaller at 53/46. Interestingly, 27% of independents rate it as excellent, as opposed to 23% of Republicans. Democrats, meanwhile, rate it 33/65, far out of pace with the rest of the nation.